Abdul Munim Riad

Abdul Munim Riad (22 October 1919-9 March 1969) was Chief-of-Staff of the Egyptian Army as well as a general of Jordan during the Six-Day War. He was killed during the War of Attrition with Israel.

Biography
Abdul Munim Riad was born on 22 October 1919 in Tanta, Sultanate of Egypt before moving to Alexandria in 1930. He took part in student protests against the United Kingdom's occupation of Egypt while a student at the Qasr el-Aini Medical School in Cairo in 1936. Later, Riad attended a military academy with Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anwar Sadat, Saad el-Shazly, and Ahmad Ismail Ali, and he rose in the ranks of the Egyptian Army. In May 1967, after the Joint Defense Group pact was signed between Egypt, Syria, and Jordan, Riad also became an officer in the Jordanian army, commanding both Egyptian and Jordanian forces during the Six-Day War. On 8 March 1969, he decided to supervise the destruction of the Bar Lev Line in Israel during the War of Attrition, preparing for an attack into Israel, but a day later he was killed by shell fragments in an attack by Israeli artillery near his position.